Motz on the Emotional Toll and Community of the Injured¶
- 😢 Glen Motz describes a room repeatedly moved to tears by witnesses who bared tragic journeys and moral injury.
- 🪖 He highlights veteran Michael McNair’s abandonment and Jasmeet Grewal’s life-sustaining IV pumps as symbols of isolation ending in new community.
- 📺 Motz praises alternative media livestreams and urges businesses to stream the inquiry so Canadians can hear one another again.
Motz reflects on holy shared experience, gallery space reserved for the injured, and the call to keep broadcasting.
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Transcript¶
Glen Motz · 0:06:57
This is the fourth and final day of this inquiry. We've had 3 days, and I think I speak for everyone that has been in this, this room and for those that have participated online, that this has been an experience. The way that these witnesses have shared to us and literally bared their hearts has affected every single one of us, uh, everything single one of us. I, I think many of us, um, are going to be completely unsure on how to deal with this going forward. And when I say this, just the emotional impact that these people have had on us There have been points where every eye had a tear in it in this room. There have been points where, you know, when your heart's stopping because you're sensing the emotion of the other person so strongly and that we're having that.
Glen Motz · 0:08:06
There have been times where all of us have either cried or been doing all we can to prevent ourselves from crying. Why has this been so impactful? It's because we're hearing people honestly share what has been nothing but a tragic journey, and we've listened to them, we've heard them. And that's what this inquiry is about. I appreciate that we've had experts to help frame things, and they, they are precious, and we need that so that we understand the context of these injured people. But this is about vaccine-injured Canadians, about their experiences. And, you know, I'd shared about the the difficulties that they've had.
Glen Motz · 0:09:09
Some of them have been too afraid to travel mentally. You know, we, we saw Michael McNair testify before the House, a gentleman that was willing to sacrifice his life for this country and his fellow soldiers for years, being completely abandoned. And, you It wasn't, it wasn't the words that he spoke. It was the way he spoke them, actually, the struggle to share a story that spoke about the moral injury. We all saw it. We all felt it. It's undeniable. And I, I hope that we all felt a collective sense of shame. That we've left him to his own devices. He can't even afford the medication he needs that they tell him he needs to stay alive.
Glen Motz · 0:10:10
A Canadian Army veteran. Yeah, we've had witnesses that have wanted to stay in this room and participate. That have had to leave because they're just in too much distress, both physically and mentally. But something else has happened here for the vaccine injured is many of them have felt completely alone. Do you remember Jasmeet Grewal, who— the young man sitting in the wheelchair with an IV pole with two, two pumps? You know, one goes into his chest, into an artery, and one goes into his stomach because for 12 hours a day they have to pump. Can't— he can't— he can't swallow anything. The only reason he's alive is these two bags, as we watched them pump during his testimony, keep him alive.
Glen Motz · 0:11:11
He felt alone before this inquiry, and he's actually met his people. We've made a choice because we've got a small gallery here that we were going to reserve it for the vaccine injured and their support people. And I'm glad we made that choice because some of them, you know, we had— I thought we had lost her with this yesterday and have to adjust our schedule, but she couldn't be in the room and they need quiet places to be and the sound and the noise and everything. And we wanted this to be a place where it's just them, where it's not busyness and where they can find each other. And it's been precious that they've been finding a wider community. I hope that they're not the only ones.
Glen Motz · 0:12:11
Finding a wider community, because we, we're all sharing in the collective experience where there's something happening here. What's happening here, in my words, is, is holy. I think we're— God's presence is here and he's speaking through these people, and we have a choice to accept that, and we have a choice to experience the community that comes with peace and love and listening to each other. And so I am so grateful and I know Chairperson Allison is so thankful for the alternative media that's here. They are live streaming and there's, there's alternative media not here live streaming and we've made it easy, but the world is watching this. Something is happening here. This is being blessed, and the world is watching because of the alternative media and people that are tirelessly posting.
Glen Motz · 0:13:15
So I, I invite everyone, big or small, livestream this, pick this up. You know, I, I'd mentioned yesterday there's a lot of businesses that they have TVs in their waiting room and they're, they're running CNN and CBC and the like. Stream the Allison Inquiry LIVE. Stream us live today and then we'll have four days up on the website, you know, for the next several weeks. Stream it, just have that in your waiting room. Share this experience because this is the first time in a long time that we're actually allowed to be Canadians again.